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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marote, post: 10357737, member: 84568&quot;]Nope, no manganese glasses this time <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A few weeks ago I bought this pince-nez</p><p>[ATTACH=full]521218[/ATTACH] </p><p>with this pouch</p><p>[ATTACH=full]521221[/ATTACH] </p><p>of P.W. Hiele, Purveyor to the court, in Utrecht (the Netherlands)</p><p>A pair of P.W. Hiele&#039;s glasses are included in the collection of the Central Museum of Utrecht <a href="https://collectie.centraalmuseum.nl/details/collection/15850" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectie.centraalmuseum.nl/details/collection/15850" rel="nofollow">https://collectie.centraalmuseum.nl/details/collection/15850</a></p><p>And in this short 1917 vid, you can see his store in the background <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> [MEDIA=vimeo]227618261[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>And yesterday, I bought this pince-nez</p><p>[ATTACH=full]521215[/ATTACH]</p><p>in this very worn case</p><p>[ATTACH=full]521217[/ATTACH]</p><p>Only when I was editing the pics to upload them here, I noticed there is a logo/text on the case. Unfortunately it&#039;s too faded to read the name, but it seems to say it&#039;s an optician in Amsterdam.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]521216[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]521219[/ATTACH]</p><p>Any thoughts on how old these glasses are?</p><p><br /></p><p>And, together with this pince-nez, I also bought this lorgnette (or is this called a lancetier?)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]521213[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]521214[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]521212[/ATTACH] </p><p>also with a pouch</p><p>[ATTACH=full]521211[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]521220[/ATTACH] </p><p>1920s/30s?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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